Deep roots: rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / Edda L. Fields-Black.
2008
DT543.42 .F54 2008
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Deep roots: rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / Edda L. Fields-Black.
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9780253352194 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253352193 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253352193 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
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English
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xvi, 277 p. : ill., maps.
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DT543.42 .F54 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
633.1/80899632
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.
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Blacks in the diaspora.
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Table of Contents
The Rio Nunez region : a small corner of West Africa's rice coast region
The first-comers and the roots of coastal rice-growing technology
The newcomers and the seeds of tidal rice-growing technology
Coastal collaboration and specialization : flowering of tidal rice-growing technologies
The strangers and the branches of coastal rice-growing technology
Feeding the slave trade : the trade in rice and captives from West Africa's rice coast
Conclusion
Appendix 1 : fieldwork interviews
Appendix 2 : rice terminology in Atlantic languages spoken in the coastal Rio Nunez region.
The first-comers and the roots of coastal rice-growing technology
The newcomers and the seeds of tidal rice-growing technology
Coastal collaboration and specialization : flowering of tidal rice-growing technologies
The strangers and the branches of coastal rice-growing technology
Feeding the slave trade : the trade in rice and captives from West Africa's rice coast
Conclusion
Appendix 1 : fieldwork interviews
Appendix 2 : rice terminology in Atlantic languages spoken in the coastal Rio Nunez region.